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title: Sometimes, for a minute or two, the Giant dropped asleep, and snored… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometimes, for a minute or two, the Giant dropped asleep, and snored like the rush of a whirlwind. Who acts: Giant. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 4

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Sometimes, for a minute or two, the Giant dropped asleep, and snored like the rush of a whirlwind.

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**Who acts:** Giant · **What happens:** drop, snore, rush · **To what, where:** whirlwind

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Giant), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg976:8:4
# text = Sometimes, for a minute or two, the Giant dropped asleep, and snored like the rush of a whirlwind.
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	nsubj	_	_
11	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	snored	snore	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	rush	rush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	whirlwind	whirlwind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drop** | past | the Giant |  |  |  | minute | asleep, sometimes *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **snore** | participle | the Giant *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like the rush of a whirlwind | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **rush** |  |  | a whirlwind |  |  |  |  | nom rush «act transitive»: of=patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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